-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reflections, Research, and Resources for Good Practice

Friday, 30 June 2017

MC Sync-Link 7

MC Update--July
2017

During 2017 we are syncing our CORE MC entries with our monthly MC Updates. Essentially,
we'll add a monthly weblog entry that contains brief excerpts from
the MC Update for that month. By linking their two
strap lines together, the purpose and potential for connecting these two MCA
tools becomes clear: "expanding the global impact of member
care...reflections, research, and resources for good practice." May these
materials encourage and equip you as you endeavor to practice member care well,
with character, competence, and compassion.

In this Update we feature several personal
stories of caregivers working in member care, mission, and mental health. These
are mainly accounts of dealing with adversity: struggles for sanity and
survival, healing and wellbeing, both in one's own life and in the lives
of people and populations with whom one works. Most of these accounts are
current (Part One--2017). Others are more vintage, harkening back 15 years to
three foundational volumes for member care (Part Two--2002)….

--Personal Armor.
Christine Spolar, Sharing
the Front Line and the Back Hills (2002, pp. 301-302). “I had been a reporter for nearly a dozen
years when I met Sarajevo. Nothing could prepare me, really, for its deadly
game of chance….no one ever spoke much about the personal armor needed to
weather a war...the emotional risks writing about war…There was no time or
place to tell the private battles waged to capture the trauma on paper.”

Welcome to CORE Member Care

We work with international colleagues on strategic projects that support humanitarian, mission ,and development workers and their organisations.

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We post core materials thatreflect some of the current cutting edges of good practice in the member care field. The materials are intentionally chosen to help us think broadly, look into our own hearts, explore member care in light of current world events, and consider additional ways to ethically provide resources to the international humanitarian and mission sectors.*We seek to integrate the educational values of knowledge, virtue, and duty (eruditio, probitas, and officium) in all that we do.*The materials on this weblog are chosen to encourage us as learners-practitioners who are committed to cross cultures, disciplines, and sectors for mutual learning and good practice.*****